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Boca, Delray libraries plan music programs
Forum Publishing GroupJan. 4 marked the beginning of the eighth season for the Sunday Musical Matinee series at the Delray Beach Public Library, while Boca Raton's Spanish River Library will open its second musical series Sunday. Delray's four-part series, underwritten by an...Tags: Broadway, Music, Music Industry, Classical Music, Dancing
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6 good celebrity feuds
Spike Lee vs. Clint Eastwood Spike Lee: "Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen. If you reporters had any balls you'd ask him why," he told reporters in...Tags: Dennis Quaid, Clint Eastwood, Katie Couric, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, David Letterman
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Robert Graham, L.A.'s masterful sculptor
Though every artist's death diminishes us, Robert Graham's loss impoverishes Los Angeles in a deep and particular way.
Graham, who died last Saturday at the age of 70 after a serious illness, was not simply the city's premier public artist, he was a...Tags: Duke Ellington, Sculpture, Los Angeles, Death and Dying, Roosevelt
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Modern jazz bassist Charlie Haden returns to traditional country roots on Grammy-nominated CD
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) — After a career on modern jazz's cutting edge, bassist Charlie Haden acknowledges being scared before recording his first country music album at Ricky Skaggs' Nashville, Tenn., studio. But with a little help from family and friends,...Tags: Jewel, Bruce Hornsby, Hank Williams, Ornette Coleman, Music Industry
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CD Releases: The Fireman, Rise Against, Keyshia Cole, Tracy Chapman, Sheila Jordan
The knock against Paul McCartney always has been that he plays it safe. While not entirely untrue, this claim ignores the work he has done with Martin Glover, also known as Youth, the acclaimed British producer and founding bassist of the post-punk...Tags: Danbury, Music, Diseases, Paul McCartney, Janet Jackson
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New On CD: The Fireman, Rise Against, Keyshia Cole, Tracy Chapman, Sheila Jordan
The Hartford CourantTHE FIREMAN Electric Arguments ATO The knock against Paul McCartney has always been that he plays it safe. While not entirely untrue, this claim ignores the work he's done with Martin Glover, also known as Youth, the acclaimed British producer and...Tags: Danbury, Music, Paul McCartney, Diseases, Janet Jackson
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Robert Graham, bronze sculptor
The Associated PressSculptor Robert Graham, whose massive bronze works mark civic monuments across America, including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., died Saturday. He was 70 and had been suffering from an unspecified illness. "Robert was an...Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Music Industry, Duke Ellington, Sculpture, Tourism and Leisure
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Civic monuments sculptor Robert Graham dead at 70
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Sculptor Robert Graham, whose bronze works mark civic monuments across America, including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington and the Duke Ellington Memorial in New York, has died at 70. Graham, who had been...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Music Industry, Duke Ellington, Sculpture, Los Angeles
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Romance could be catching
The picture captures a refreshing image of tenderness. There's Barack Obama, moments after delivering his acceptance speech for president of the United States. His arm is wrapped around the waist of his wife, soon-to-be first lady Michelle. Their eyes are...Tags: Soul Music, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Kanye West, Jay-Z
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Stop, hey, what's that sound?
There's a Riot Going On
Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the '60s
Peter Doggett
Canongate: 598 pp., $27.50
WHAT DO we do in 2008 with Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin? As cultural...Tags: Rock and Roll, Eldridge Cleaver, Bombings, Guerrilla Activity, Music Industry
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New CDs: Charlie Haden, Kings of Leon, TV on the Radio
Charlie Haden Family & Friends (Decca)
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The stereotypical disconnect between the worlds of jazz and country music was beautifully crystallized many years ago when celebrated drummer Buddy Rich was in the hospital. Just before going into surgery,...Tags: Rock and Roll, Bruce Hornsby, Ornette Coleman, Music Industry, Halloween
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New On Disc: Everlast, Ben Folds
EVERLAST Love, War, and the Ghost of Whitey Ford Martyr/Sony Everlast's first album in four years begins with a pair of tracks that carry the whiff of strong ideas past their sell-by date. Opening with a brassy flourish, the rapped "Kill the Emperor"...Tags: Johnny Cash, Connecticut, Music, Storrs, Everlast
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